Author: John Orville Greenwood
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 556
Book Description
Namesakes, 1900-1909
Author: John Orville Greenwood
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 556
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 556
Book Description
Namesakes
Author: John Orville Greenwood
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 529
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 529
Book Description
Namesakes of the 90's
Author: John Orville Greenwood
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Lakes (North America)
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Lakes (North America)
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Steamboats and Sailors of the Great Lakes
Author: Mark L. Thompson
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
ISBN: 0814338356
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 411
Book Description
Steamboats and Sailors of the Great Lakestraces the evolution of the Great Lakes shipping industry over the last three centuries. The Great Lakes shipping industry can trace its lineage to 1679 with the launching on Lake Erie of the Griffon, a sixty-foot galley weighing nearly fifty tons. Built by LaSalle, a French explorer who had been commissioned to search for a passage through North America to China, it was the first sailing ship to operate on the upper lakes, signaling the dawn of the Great Lakes shipping industry as we know it today. Steamboats and Sailors of the Great Lakes is the most thorough and factual study of the Great Lakes shipping industry written this century. Author Mark L. Thompson tells the fascinating story of the world's most efficient bulk transportation system, describing the Great Lakes freighters, the cargoes of the great ships ,and the men and women who have served as crew. He documents the dramatic changes that have taken places in the industry and looks at the critical role that Great Lakes shipping plays in the economic well-being of the U.S. and Canada, despite the fact tat the size of the fleet and the amount of cargo carried have declined dramatically in recent years. Spanning more than three centuries, from LaSalle's voyage in 1679, through 1975 with the mysterious sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald, to life aboard today's thousand-foot behemoths, this important volume documents the evolution of the industry through its "Golden Age" at the end of the nineteenth century to the present, with a downsized U.S. fleet that numbers fewer than seventy vessels.
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
ISBN: 0814338356
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 411
Book Description
Steamboats and Sailors of the Great Lakestraces the evolution of the Great Lakes shipping industry over the last three centuries. The Great Lakes shipping industry can trace its lineage to 1679 with the launching on Lake Erie of the Griffon, a sixty-foot galley weighing nearly fifty tons. Built by LaSalle, a French explorer who had been commissioned to search for a passage through North America to China, it was the first sailing ship to operate on the upper lakes, signaling the dawn of the Great Lakes shipping industry as we know it today. Steamboats and Sailors of the Great Lakes is the most thorough and factual study of the Great Lakes shipping industry written this century. Author Mark L. Thompson tells the fascinating story of the world's most efficient bulk transportation system, describing the Great Lakes freighters, the cargoes of the great ships ,and the men and women who have served as crew. He documents the dramatic changes that have taken places in the industry and looks at the critical role that Great Lakes shipping plays in the economic well-being of the U.S. and Canada, despite the fact tat the size of the fleet and the amount of cargo carried have declined dramatically in recent years. Spanning more than three centuries, from LaSalle's voyage in 1679, through 1975 with the mysterious sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald, to life aboard today's thousand-foot behemoths, this important volume documents the evolution of the industry through its "Golden Age" at the end of the nineteenth century to the present, with a downsized U.S. fleet that numbers fewer than seventy vessels.
Graveyard of the Lakes
Author: Mark L. Thompson
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
ISBN: 9780814332269
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
A historically accurate, well-rounded picture of shipwrecks on the Great Lakes.
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
ISBN: 9780814332269
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
A historically accurate, well-rounded picture of shipwrecks on the Great Lakes.
Queen of the Lakes
Author: Mark L. Thompson
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
ISBN: 0814343376
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Queen of the Lakes is a Great Lake Books publication.
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
ISBN: 0814343376
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Queen of the Lakes is a Great Lake Books publication.
Namesakes, 1930-1955
Author: John Orville Greenwood
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 520
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 520
Book Description
Namesakes, 2000
Author: John Orville Greenwood
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Namesakes, 1956-1980
Author: John Orville Greenwood
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Lakes (North America)
Languages : en
Pages : 648
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Lakes (North America)
Languages : en
Pages : 648
Book Description
A Ship Sails from Newport: Charles F. Spademan of Marine City, Michigan
Author: Thomas B. Spademan
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 055789428X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 86
Book Description
This is a summary of what is known about the life and family of Charles Frederick Spademan (1823-1904), his first wife, Catharine (Schreiner) Spademan (1829-1865), and his second wife, Margaret (Allington) Spademan (1835-1910), mid-Nineteenth Century immigrants or, in the case of Margaret, a daughter of immigrants, who came to America from Germany, England, and Scotland, and settled in Marine City, Michigan (then known as Newport). "Pioneer and Veteran" Charles Spademan, who came to Michigan in about 1851, was a butcher, a farmer, the owner of a successful meat market, a Civil War soldier, and the owner of lake boats. Through hard work, Charles, Catharine, and Margaret, like so many others in the 19th century, made life better for themselves, their descendents, and their community.
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 055789428X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 86
Book Description
This is a summary of what is known about the life and family of Charles Frederick Spademan (1823-1904), his first wife, Catharine (Schreiner) Spademan (1829-1865), and his second wife, Margaret (Allington) Spademan (1835-1910), mid-Nineteenth Century immigrants or, in the case of Margaret, a daughter of immigrants, who came to America from Germany, England, and Scotland, and settled in Marine City, Michigan (then known as Newport). "Pioneer and Veteran" Charles Spademan, who came to Michigan in about 1851, was a butcher, a farmer, the owner of a successful meat market, a Civil War soldier, and the owner of lake boats. Through hard work, Charles, Catharine, and Margaret, like so many others in the 19th century, made life better for themselves, their descendents, and their community.